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Cuneiform tablet- loan of silver MET vs54 117 27b

Cuneiform tablet- memorandum of receipt for silver, Egibi archive MET ME79 7 35

Cuneiform tablet- petition, prayer for a king MET ME86 11 399

Cuneiform tablet- private letter concerning consignment of textiles MET ME66 245 11

Cuneiform tablet- private letter fragment MET ME58 108

Cuneiform tablet- private letter fragment MET ME66 245 6

Cuneiform tablet- private letter MET DP-12499-013

Cuneiform tablet- private letter MET DP-12499-014

Cuneiform tablet- private letter MET DP-13441-002

Cuneiform tablet- private letter MET DP-13441-003

Cuneiform tablet- private letter MET DP110638

Cuneiform tablet- private letter MET ME1983 135 6a

Cuneiform tablet- private letter MET ME66 245 1

Cuneiform tablet- private letter MET ME66 245 2

Cuneiform tablet- private letter MET ME66 245 3

Cuneiform tablet- private letter MET ME66 245 4

Cuneiform tablet- private letter MET ME66 245 7

Cuneiform tablet- private letter MET ME66 245 9

Cuneiform tablet- private letter MET vsx706 4a

Cuneiform tablet- quittance for a loan in copper MET ME66 245 18a

Cuneiform tablet- quittance for a loan in silver MET DP162272

Cuneiform tablet- ration list MET ME11 217 16

Cuneiform tablet- ration list MET ME11 217 26

Cuneiform tablet- ration list MET ME11 217 5

Cuneiform tablet- receipt by proxy for silver, Egibi archive MET ME79 7 20

Cuneiform tablet- receipt for barley, Esagilaya archive MET ME86 11 207

Cuneiform tablet- receipt for rent payment, Egibi archive MET ME79 7 9

Cuneiform tablet- receipt for silver, Egibi archive MET ME79 7 3

Cuneiform tablet- receipt of silver for a wash-bowl MET ME86 11 219

Cuneiform tablet- record of expenditures of silver, Ebabbar archive MET ME86 11 107

Cuneiform tablet- record of sale MET ME86 11 150

Cuneiform tablet- record of silver for purchase of animals, Ebabbar archive MET ME86 11 218

Cuneiform tablet- record of silver for supplies, Ebabbar archive MET ME86 11 234

Cuneiform tablet- sale of real estate MET ME86 11 443

Cuneiform tablet- slave sale, Egibi archive MET ME79 7 13

Cuneiform tablet- slave sale, Egibi archive MET ME86 11 145

Cuneiform tablet with a small second tablet- private letter MET DP-13441-020

Cuneiform tablet with a small second tablet- private letter MET DP-13441-021

Cuneiform tablets, letter from Hammurabi

Dagon Museum, Cuneiform document on clay tablet

Hattusa Bronze Tablet Cuneiform

Hittite Cuneiform Tablet- Legal Deposition(?)

Jehoiachin Ration Tablet detail

Numerical tablet Khafaje OIM A21310

Sumerian cuneiform tablet dating approximately 2041 B.C. Is a receipt for the donation of livestock to the feast for a Sumerian king

Tablet and enveloppe Ashmolean 1930.407

Tablet BM131452

The Newly Discovered Tablet V of the Epic of Gilgamesh. Meeting Humbaba, with Enkidu, at the Cedar Forest. The Sulaymaniyah Museum, Iraqi Kurdistan

Triangle geometrical tablet Ashmolean 1931 91

Ur Bau tablet AO261 mp3h9041